James Cates’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Rodalton Hart et al Rodalton Hart (2000), Bellows v. Amoco Oil Co. (1997)
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Foman v. Davis · White v. Morgan · Dussouy v. Gulf Coast Investment Corp. · United Copper Securities Company v. Amalgamated Copper Company
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The record conclusively shows that the agreements sued on were between the partnerships and the defendants, that Cates individually was not a party thereto, and that the businesses which were the subject matter of the agreements were the businesses of the partnerships, not of Cates individually. Accordingly, any claims for damages which Cates suffered by reason of diminution in value of his partnership interest, or his share of partnership income, ... by reason of breach of such agreements ... are in effect subsumed within the causes of action of the partnerships and do not afford Cates ... a separate, individual cause of action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a valid, valuable partnership cause of action”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ut such deficiencies do not normally justify dismissal of the suit on the merits and without leave to amend, at least not in the absence of special circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.